On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Daenyth Blank <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 05:32, Alexander Rødseth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I like both the idea of it being possible to change the names of > > packages and the patch. > > But, what about dependencies? Should they be left dangling? > > > > - Alexander Rødseth > > > > This patch leaves the pkgname in the PKGBUILD as the old name. > Probably not an issue, but the maintainer would have to submit an > updated PKGBUILD after the name change. > Yeah I thought about that, but when the package name goes from "foo" to "bar", the maintainer might want to add replaces=("foo") etc. So it's probably best to leave it up to the maintainer.
